Mindfulness-Based Organisational Development

• We begin with a Development Centre. Over the course of this intensive day, you will get to know yourself and the other participants in challenging business role-play situations and we will practise an open culture of learning and feedback. In the following teaching sessions, we will examine one themed focal point per day. We will carry out different exercises and invite external individuals (online) to take part and will reflect on their input.
• Between the teaching days, there will be mindfulness exercises, but also assignments where you will experiment with and apply what you have learned. You will complete most of these assignments independently, but will occasionally work in tandem.
• Team development and culture change: small and larger steps you can take to promote organisational success. Creating trust through mindfulness – with or without meditation exercises.
• Projects and meetings: making meetings more effective by slowing them down.
• Communication and ‘business case’: planning and measuring mindfulness and selling it internally.
• Appreciative Inquiry: developing organisations by finding the positive and by applying presencing (Theory U).
• Agility and digitalisation: seeing mindfulness as part of a greater transformation and drawing energy from that.
• Advanced mindfulness training: advance your own mindfulness skills with a series of micro exercises.

Looking to make a difference? Apply the methods outlined in this continuing education course to boost team spirit, work satisfaction and performance in your organisation.

• Development Centre
• Specialist input, case studies, group exercises, discussions
• One-to-one mindfulness coaching
• Assignments, tandem learning, reflection report

• Reflection report on experience with the set exercises
• Practice report on actual measures carried out and further planning

Jeanine Born
Psychotherapist and MBSR teacher, business coach, board member of mindfulness.swiss

Jenny Ebermann
Director of Wikimedia Switzerland, MBSR teacher

Thomas Frauenknecht
Organisational developer/coach, MBSR teacher

Professor Alexander W. Hunziker
Head of Degree Programme and lecturer in Mindfulness and Positive Psychology, Bern University of Applied Sciences, management trainer, author, MBSR teacher.

«Mindfulness is a digital skill. The more stress and emotional impoverishment we experience in the digitalised workplace, the more important it is to be able to be present as a person – particularly when we feel that we don’t have the time.»

Various guest speakers will outline their practical experience. Provisional speakers:

• Chris Tamjidi, CEO Awaris, mindful organisation consultancy, Cologne
• Kai Romhardt, economist and founder of the «Achtsame Wirtschaft» (Mindful Business) network, author (Berlin)
• Kilian Ambord, managing director, Hôpital du Valais
• Lutz Hempel, mindfulness-based organisation consultant, Basel
• Mirjam Rolfe, author and mindfulness-based organisation consultant, Zurich/Hamburg
• Paul Jokiel, HR Hilti, Schaan, FL
• Peter Creutzfeldt, author and trainer in mindful management, Frankfurt
• Petra Keel, BGM Forum Zurich
• Petra Maria Heeb, SAP (Switzerland), Biel/Bienne
• Remo Bühlmann, Radiology, Inselspital, Bern
• Tim Vogus, renowned researcher in organisational mindfulness, Nashville, USA

Typical participants:

• Managers who practise meditation themselves and who would like to extend mindfulness within their team and the wider professional environment.
• Professionals working in organisational development, occupational health management or change management who would like to use mindfulness as a basis for their work.

You must have at least two years of professional experience, either in a management role (line manager or project manager) or in HR and organisational development.

You must have completed the specialist course ‘Mindful Leadership’ at BFH. If you have attended an ‘MBSR’ course and the follow-up ‘specialisation course Mindful Leadership’, this is regarded as equivalent. Other equivalent qualifications will also be considered.

If you are uncertain whether you meet the admission requirements, please contact the course leaders as soon as possible.

Specialist course in «Mindfulness-Based Organisational Development»

You will receive a certificate of participation. If you meet the general admission requirements for studies and successfully pass the competency assessment, you will earn 6 ECTS credits. These will appear on your certificate.

This specialist course can be counted towards:

• CAS Mindfulness in Organisations
• EMBA Leadership and Management (variant via DAS), provided you meet the admission requirements

Registration closes six weeks before the course begins. If places are available, later registration will be permitted. 

CHF 4,200

All course materials and assessments are included in this tuition fee.